How high is Mount Everest?

Compared with things you know

• About 27 times as high as Tokyo Tower (333 m)
• About 2.3 times as high as Mount Fuji (3,776 m)
• About 1.5 times as high as Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 m)

Did you know?

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people documented on the summit, on 29 May 1953.

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• Mount Kilimanjaro5,895 m · 19,341 ft high
• Mount Vesuvius1,281 m · 4,203 ft high
• Hyperion (tallest tree)116 m · 381 ft tall
• Coconut palm (tall type)25 m · 82 ft tall
• Saguaro cactus12 m · 39.4 ft tall
• Mount Fuji3,776 m · 12,388 ft high

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